Western High School Boundary Map options (A/B/C/D)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

You’re conflating two different issues. The first is the readiness of this building to function as a 2000-student high school. The second is the drawing of boundaries for the school.

FCPS is making a hash of both but they can’t just snap their fingers and re-open KAA as a public HS. Those most anxious to avoid Westfield and South Lakes have done themselves a disservice by proclaiming otherwise.

They could open it with 9/10. It just takes planning and some creativity and a commitment to doing the right thing.

No they can't. They didn't even look into the state-mandated permitting around land use and conversion. They made a plan and a whole series of meeting and announcements *without reading the relevant zoning laws.* These people are very dumb.

The smart thing to do would be to pause all boundary changes so all of this can happen at the same time. But again, these aren't smart people.

The complete mess that is now FCPS is the legacy of Karl Frisch. Elect a childless idiot more interested than LBGTQ activism than education and watch the system crumble from within.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Coats fill Herndon HS seats now, so Great Falls will not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Coats fill Herndon HS seats now, so Great Falls will not.

Coates already splits to Westfield and Herndon. Moving Coates kids to Herndon ES doesn’t change the number going to Herndon HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Coats fill Herndon HS seats now, so Great Falls will not.

Nope. Coates* is being sent to western high school based on the maps that were released. This is why the great falls crowd is apoplectic about the KAA purchase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Coats fill Herndon HS seats now, so Great Falls will not.

Nope. Coates* is being sent to western high school based on the maps that were released. This is why the great falls crowd is apoplectic about the KAA purchase.

Great Falls has hated the idea of a western high school for a long time, dating at least back to Janie Strauss’s “sorry Langley” comment at a School Board work session 7-8 years ago where she tied a new western HS to changes in Langley’s boundaries.

Elaine Tholen spent four years on the SB opposing any efforts towards a new western HS. Guess where she lived.

Robyn Lady was very enthusiastic about the KAA purchase at first to relieve overcrowding at Chantilly but since then seems to have been convinced to argue it should be a smaller magnet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

But wait. What do you mean by Great Falls? Are you saying the Forestville Elementary Herndon/Reston/Vienna addresses get to stay at Langley?
Sometimes school districts use extra capacity as swing space and an estimated 1/2 of the 1005 Westfield to Western for grades 9 and 10 could be at Herndon. Obviously:
1. Western can hold grades 9 and 10 for option B as a comprehensive AP HS. That's estimated 863 or 50% of 1726. JIP out of South Lakes for those grades.
2. Centreville to 3000 as proposed by FCPS could not get permits. Robinson, next to Centreville, has a modular.
3. 502 out of Westfield makes space for about 350 Chantilly + Centreville 9th and 10th graders.

KAA was operating as a private school so does anyone really thing the rezoning as a public facility will not pass? Maybe that's the hang up so Plan B for partial 2026 could use Herndon as temporary swing space especially given the scheme of sending all to prior base schools for activities and sports.
3. FCPS now has a permit to use part of Western as office/administrative/security "staging" on site. Some of Workflow Routing Slip Report and complete search shows partial blueprint of the main level to see section F which has the newly approved FCPS office at Western:
NONRUP-2025-01540
Project Name: Fairfax County Public Schools
Application Submitted: 09/30/2025
Report Generated: 11/7/2025 9:24 AM

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[Anonymous]

It’s speculation as to why the Centreville permit has been held up. Maybe it’s related to the scale of the originally proposed expansion but West Potomac was already expanded to 3000.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

But wait. What do you mean by Great Falls? Are you saying the Forestville Elementary Herndon/Reston/Vienna addresses get to stay at Langley?
Sometimes school districts use extra capacity as swing space and an estimated 1/2 of the 1005 Westfield to Western for grades 9 and 10 could be at Herndon. Obviously:
1. Western can hold grades 9 and 10 for option B as a comprehensive AP HS. That's estimated 863 or 50% of 1726. JIP out of South Lakes for those grades.
2. Centreville to 3000 as proposed by FCPS could not get permits. Robinson, next to Centreville, has a modular.
3. 502 out of Westfield makes space for about 350 Chantilly + Centreville 9th and 10th graders.

KAA was operating as a private school so does anyone really thing the rezoning as a public facility will not pass? Maybe that's the hang up so Plan B for partial 2026 could use Herndon as temporary swing space especially given the scheme of sending all to prior base schools for activities and sports.
3. FCPS now has a permit to use part of Western as office/administrative/security "staging" on site. Some of Workflow Routing Slip Report and complete search shows partial blueprint of the main level to see section F which has the newly approved FCPS office at Western:
NONRUP-2025-01540
Project Name: Fairfax County Public Schools
Application Submitted: 09/30/2025
Report Generated: 11/7/2025 9:24 AM

Close Out
Closed
10/10/2025

Huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s speculation as to why the Centreville permit has been held up. Maybe it’s related to the scale of the originally proposed expansion but West Potomac was already expanded to 3000.

It’s no surprise that Pat herrity is the district supervisor and the permits are being held up. The guy would screw over his own constituents if it meant getting a dig at the school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Will great falls parents be willing to send their kids to a school with death threats from Herndon High classmates that resulted in a drive-by shooting death of a Herndon High student?

Seems like Herndon High needs to fix that problem first. Herndon High families may be used to the violence but others are not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Coats fill Herndon HS seats now, so Great Falls will not.

Nope. Coates* is being sent to western high school based on the maps that were released. This is why the great falls crowd is apoplectic about the KAA purchase.

Great Falls has hated the idea of a western high school for a long time, dating at least back to Janie Strauss’s “sorry Langley” comment at a School Board work session 7-8 years ago where she tied a new western HS to changes in Langley’s boundaries.

Elaine Tholen spent four years on the SB opposing any efforts towards a new western HS. Guess where she lived.

Robyn Lady was very enthusiastic about the KAA purchase at first to relieve overcrowding at Chantilly but since then seems to have been convinced to argue it should be a smaller magnet.

Robyn Lady understands the real threat of a challenger winning her seat. She’s upset Great Falls (boundary study) and McLean (no renovation in sight). There will be a concerted effort to get a moderate R in her seat in two years, and the last thing that the other school board members want is to have an R who can exercise oversight function on a lot of what they and FCPS does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Will great falls parents be willing to send their kids to a school with death threats from Herndon High classmates that resulted in a drive-by shooting death of a Herndon High student?

Seems like Herndon High needs to fix that problem first. Herndon High families may be used to the violence but others are not.

What do Great Falls parents plan to do about the culture at Langley: academic and social pressure that has led to multiple student suicides; vandalism at other schools; a teacher who took Langley students on a trip to Europe and encouraged them to engage in drinking and sexual activity in his presence; an aide arrested for fondling his genitals in a Langley classroom; multiple recent acts of anti-Semitism; an alumnus who killed another Langley graduate; and a Langley parent who shot his own son, then a Langley sophomore.

Herndon seems like an oasis of normalcy in comparison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What ridiculous incompetence.

Literally just about anywhere else in the world, even in this country, school leaders would not waste time and they would open the dang school. Instead they want to listen to people bicker and squabble over this for another year?? What a waste.

Please. There is no solution to this that will make everyone 100% happy. Stop it with the theatrics about “community input” when it won’t matter in the end. No magnet school. do it by the numbers and eliminating split feeders, there, done. Families will adapt.

Actually, anywhere else in the world they would’ve put more thought into the plan before buying such a large asset.

No. They need the school. Westfield is full, Centreville is overcrowded, and Chantilly is bursting at the seams.

Herndon has hundreds of empty seats and they’d already be working on the Centreville expansion if they had their act together.

Don’t worry, great falls will soon fill those empty seats at Herndon.

Coats fill Herndon HS seats now, so Great Falls will not.

Nope. Coates* is being sent to western high school based on the maps that were released. This is why the great falls crowd is apoplectic about the KAA purchase.

Great Falls has hated the idea of a western high school for a long time, dating at least back to Janie Strauss’s “sorry Langley” comment at a School Board work session 7-8 years ago where she tied a new western HS to changes in Langley’s boundaries.

Elaine Tholen spent four years on the SB opposing any efforts towards a new western HS. Guess where she lived.

Robyn Lady was very enthusiastic about the KAA purchase at first to relieve overcrowding at Chantilly but since then seems to have been convinced to argue it should be a smaller magnet.

Robyn Lady understands the real threat of a challenger winning her seat. She’s upset Great Falls (boundary study) and McLean (no renovation in sight). There will be a concerted effort to get a moderate R in her seat in two years, and the last thing that the other school board members want is to have an R who can exercise oversight function on a lot of what they and FCPS does.

There’s zero chance any R wins any seat in the next election. If Lady loses it’ll be from a primary challenger.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They cancelled the Western High School community meeting scheduled on November 14.

Also, the agenda for Novemeber 13 board meeting does not include the voting for programming decision.

What’s going on?

Who got the email about the 11/14 meeting being cancelled? I got emails about the high school and the 11/1 meeting, but not this one. Did only certain people get the latest email? If so, why?

Maybe only people who signed up got it? I saw it on Facebook but did not receive it myself. I did see that the links that our school sent out are now dead.